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| Arnaud-haond, Sophie; Duarte, Carlos M.; Diaz-almela, Elena; Marba, Nuria; Sintes, Tomas; Serrao, Ester A.. |
| The maximum size and age that clonal organisms can reach remains poorly known, although we do know that the largest natural clones can extend over hundreds or thousands of metres and potentially live for centuries. We made a review of findings to date, which reveal that the maximum clone age and size estimates reported in the literature are typically limited by the scale of sampling, and may grossly underestimate the maximum age and size of clonal organisms. A case study presented here shows the occurrence of clones of slow-growing marine angiosperm Posidonia oceanica at spatial scales ranging from metres to hundreds of kilometres, using microsatellites on 1544 sampling units from a total of 40 locations across the Mediterranean Sea. This analysis revealed... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00076/18710/16283.pdf |
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